Greetings Angel – The Messenger Has Come! not for Shay, but because of her Citrus In the night air Midnight in that garden Of good (and evil) Oh, yeah! Lemon-scented Moon-riddled Almost De La Renta But not Not so cheap Not But not real either Just The scent of summer Night Summer night … But […]
Month: April 2011
Hope Springs ~ Gifts Renounced
Hope Springs ~ Gifts Renounced for my parents Underneath That lamplight Over there Over there By the ~ By the ~ By the ~ As early As infanthood You told me and I said no Sitting at that table Wooden table Wooden child Pinocchio in shorts and shirt (oh no no no no blouse) Old […]
Seamless Dressing (and Undressing) ~ Every Actor’s Dream
Seamless Dressing (and Undressing) ~ Every Actor’s Dream for Cushla Watching you Spending so much time watching you Slipping With such ease Into whatever coat is expected Seamless Dressing And Seemingly As easily undressing Disrobing the one To assume the other You Are The Actor Hamlet Was written for Hard to say that Rosalind was […]
Channels
Channels for Shay There you are Clear As air Ice cold as a winter morning in Central Park Or snow-bound on the mainstreet of Oslo I am crying and it’s not me It’s you I am channelling you You are cold To me you are cold You bring no sweet release Only sustenance Soul food […]
Angel Dew
Angel Dew for Shay Echo There is a night sound Called echo I am lead to believe A sound in the anchored night Locked in memory That exiting moment of light into space Then into dark Before the pink queen stands by you Sends faerie into mourning for you And you are alone but for […]
Saoirse ~ Without Freedom and Liberty, Life Is Just Skin and Bone
It was the second time I’d tried to find his grave. Having travelled twelve thousand miles to sit with him and reflect on how our ‘lives’ had crossed I wasn’t going to give up and go home with this ambition unfulfilled, with just some solo, dangling conversation to reflect on. Twelve months before I […]
An End To Indifference ~ Zurich See
Sometimes it’s just good luck! From Berlin I was to travel to Rome via, I was to discover later, the then Czech Republic. Fortunately, as apparently happens often, the trains were on strike. I say fortunately because I hadn’t realized that the train I was booked on detoured into Czechoslovakia and I had none […]
Piss off, Mary, I’m Head Fairy! ~ A Leadership Tango
When art critics probe the work of the recently deceased it is customary for them to say (if the artist has been in any way charismatic) that the art may not outlive the memory of the artist. Mostly they are wrong. This was said of a retrospective exhibition of Derek Jarman’s painting following the […]
Bernard Pivot’s ~ or otherwise James Lipton’s ~ Questionnaire
Fans of Inside the Actor’s Studio are familiar with James Lipton’s list of questions, which he poses to each of his guests at the end of an interview. Lipton always gives credit for this list to French talk show host Bernard Pivot, who hosted Apostrophe’s from 1975–1990 and Bouillon de Culturefrom 1990–2001.He often […]
Seido Karate and the Myth of Invincibility
‘But he could tear the horns off bulls’. When discussing the comparative merits of a range of karate disciplines this statement was put forward as advancing Kyokushinkai karatedo to the head of the queue. It seemed rather incongruous and didn’t quite fit with what I had come to understand were the underlying principles of karatedo […]
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